“I do want to do first is say a massive and extremely heart-felt thank you to each and every one of you who applied to be part of our Design Teams. The quality of the applications, wealth and breadth of talent simply was outstanding and made the job of choosing a very very difficult one for the selection panel. It has taken them so long to reach a decision because it was very hard to separate you all, it was such a close run thing, eventually we had to run a silent ballot – a bit like the elections to keep it fair and unbiased, it took us longer than hoped to do all the counting, and double-checking, but the result we can be very proud to say was those with the most votes were selected.”So, here are the ladies who will make up the Main Crafter’s Companion Design Team (click on their names to visit their blogs!):